{"id":34478,"date":"2016-10-31T05:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=34478"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:15:13","slug":"city-sampler-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/city-sampler-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"City Sampler Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am out of cut white squares for charity blocks, so I used pieces for the City Sampler blocks as leaders and enders while I was sewing the Peacock together this past weekend.<\/p>\n

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City Sampler blocks n.38-41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was able to finish a total of 6 blocks, which still makes me under 50 done, but progress is progress. I am still on the triangle blocks and my machine really likes eating the corners when I use the method Tula Pink suggests. I was grumpy making these blocks and ordered more Northcott charm packs to use for the donation blocks.<\/p>\n

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City Sampler block n.41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I added a few new fabrics from the group I recently washed to spice things up. They are all in the blue-green range, so they will go. I know I said before<\/a> that I had too many, but clearly now I don’t care.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a lot of fabrics in my group that are good for fussy cutting, so I did the best I could. I am pleased with the way the ice cream block came out.<\/p>\n

Of the above blocks, I really only like the one in the upper right hand corner. I like of the fabrics in all of the blocks, but don’t much like the block designs and not just because my machine ate the corners. I particularly dislike the one in the upper left hand corner. It looks like baby blocks and I don’t think it came out well. The piecing is really wobbly due to the above referenced machine hunger and because of the many small pieces. I may redo as suggested by some on Instagram<\/a>, but it will probably just blend in by the time I get all of the other blocks made.<\/p>\n

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City Sampler blocks n.42-43<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do like the two I made yesterday and think that simple is better for the small size of these blocks. I am really looking at the one on the left and thinking about making it super big – bed sized, in fact for one of the nephews. I have to figure out how big that would actually be. I can see the block as a quilt in, from the top down, Kona Ash, scarlett and black. I would probably do a\u00a0 test block first to check the color choices, then see if American Made Brands or Art Gallery has a similar solid color to Kona Ash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am out of cut white squares for charity blocks, so I used pieces for the City Sampler blocks as leaders and enders while I was sewing the Peacock together this past weekend. I was able to finish a total of 6 blocks, which still makes me under 50 done, but progress is progress. I … Continue reading “City Sampler Blocks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[374],"tags":[349,272,263],"class_list":["post-34478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-blocks","tag-city-sampler","tag-tale-of-two-cities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}